Introduction+to+the+Historical+Literacy+Project

What should students know about the history of Canada when they leave Grade 12?

 * What is the "****Benchmarks of Historical Thinking" pilot project?** [| http://www.histori.ca/benchmarks/]
 * LSSD is one of four original pilot sites in a National Project
 * Headed by Peter Sexias - University of British Columbia.
 * Receives Historica funding
 * Focus of the 2007 Historica Teachers' Institute.
 * Connections to critical thinking Consortium
 * concepts are embedded in the Grade 11 History curriculum


 * " Benchmarks concepts can serve as a pedagogical approach to problematizing the** current curriculum." Peter Sexias

Print resource: "Teaching About Historical Thinking " by Roland Case, The Critical Thinking Consortium http://tc2.ca/curriculum-resources/critical-challenges-across-the-curriculum/tools-for-historical-understanding/

Agenda for April 25